Plants small, gregarious or forming small groups, olive-green, glossy; saxicolous or terricolous. Stems 3-4 mm tall, simple; in section round, central strand present, small, cortical cells small, thin-walled, becoming incrassate toward margin. Leaves crisped, lamina widely involute dry, erect-spreading wet; obovate, spathulate or elliptical, 1.5-2.5 mm long; apex obtuse to rounded; margins plane, entire. Costa ending below apex or percurrent; ventral superficial cells rounded-quadrate, somewhat thickened, dorsal superficial cells rectangular, incrassate; in section round, guide cells 4, small, ventral cells in single layer, similar to laminal cells, dorsal stereid band 4-5 cells thick, dorsal surface cells substereids, sometimes as large as guide cells. Upper laminal cells rounded-quadrate, rarely angular, incrassate, mammillose ventrally, smooth dorsally; basal cells large, lax, rectangular; basal marginal cells much smaller, quadrate to rectangular. Autoicous. Perichaetial leaves undifferentiated. Seta 3.5 mm long, yellowish; capsule weakly plicate dry, cylindrical-ovoid, 1.6-1.8 mm long, red-brown; peristome irregular, teeth linear, 0.2 mm high, sometimes perforated below, granulate, light orange; operculum rostrate, 0.5 mm long; spores round, 10-12 µm, granulate.
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